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America's Faded Image
Karen P. Hughes ["Sinking in the Polls," op-ed, Sept. 17] wrote that only a minority of people in the Middle East support terrorist activities and that support has been declining since 2001. But she barely mentioned that the formerly positive view of America held by an overwhelming majority of people in the Middle East has dropped precipitously.
In Turkey, according to the Pew Global Attitudes Project, those with a favorable view of America dropped from 52 percent of residents surveyed in 2002 to 9 percent of those surveyed today. In large part this is due to hostility to U.S. foreign policies in the region, but it is also due to the ineptitude of public diplomacy under Hughes's leadership at the State Department. Better outreach would help.
-- Robert Anton Mertz
Bethesda
The Missing Democrats
What happened to the Democrats' influence that would follow from their having a majority in the Senate? Your Sept. 19 editorial "A 'Palpable Injustice' " stated that the vote was 57 to 42 for a procedural motion to send the D.C. statehood bill to the floor, but you don't mention a single Democrat who voted against it. Did they all support it?
